Machine for making wooden toothpicks.



PATENTBD'MA'Y 14, 1907.

J. H. NUTEJ MACHINE FOR MAKING WOODEN 'TO OTHPIGK S.

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JOHN H. NUTE, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

MACHINE FOR MAKING WOODEN TOOTHPIOKS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed July 2,1906. Serial No. 324,331.

To a, whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. NUTE, of Portland, in the State of Maine, United States of America, manufacturer, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Wooden Toothpicks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a machine for manufacturing wooden tooth picks, and the objects of my invention are to provide a sim ple machine for cutting tapered or chiseled point tooth picks from a iece of veneer with a maximum economy 0 material possible; and it consists essentially of an oscillating plate having a shear blade on the edge thereof, a rotary cutter head. having the blades thereon adjusted to shear against the shear blade on the plate when the same is oscillated in its two extreme positions, together with suitable means for feeding the veneer across the blade for oscillating the plate and for rotating the cutter head, all

as hereinafter more fully set forth and described in the accompanying specifications and drawings.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view through my machine. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail along the line 22, Fig. 2.

In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

A is the frame of any suitable form supporting the feeding table B. At the end of the feeding table and on the same plane therewith an oscillating plate C is provided preferably being pivoted to a bar aextending beneath it and secured to the side members of .the frame. 'To the edge of thisplate a suitable shear blade 6 is secured by suitable means, that shown being bolted to a flange on the inside of the plate.

D is a rotary cutter head supported with its axis substantially horizontal and having blades 0 and d adjustably secured thereon and so adjusted as to shear against the knife I) on extreme positions. The cutter D is suported on a suitable shaft e which is rotated rom a suitable source of ower.

The plate 0 may be osci lated by any suitable means, but I prefer to utilize the shaft e for the purpose, providing thereon an eccentric f having a strap 9 encircling the same The usual means will be provided for feeding the material along the feeding table and. across the oscillating late compsiring, as shown, two feeding rol ers E and F adjustably held in position and preferably rotated from the shaft c-by a suitable system of gearing G.

n operation the veneer is fed across the oscillating late at such a speed relative to that of the ead that the tooth picks will be cut the desired width. The eccentric f is so set in relation to the cutting blades 0 and (Z that when one of these latter is in cutting position the plate G carrying the shear blade I) will be in its extreme oscillated position out of arallel with the axis of the revolving head. Wfien the other cutter d reaches a like posi tion the eccentric will have oscillated the plate to its opposite position in which the lade b is again out of parallel with the axis of the revolving head but this time at a reverse angle whereby a tapered section will be cut from the strip of veneer with the wide ends alternately on each side, thus keeping the stripeven and producing tooth picks of the desired form. The dotted lines indicate this second position.

An important feature of the invention is the knife blade I) on the edge of the plate which insures that the tooth picks are cut evenly without s linters.

It will be rea ily understood that while I have described with great particularity of detail one specific embodiment of my invention, my invention is not limited thereto as certain changes within the scope of the appended claims might be made in the details of con struction without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim as my invention is In a machine for cutting tooth picks from veneer, the combination with an oscillating plate, having rollers operating above the same, of a shear blade secured to the edge of the plate, a cylindrical cutter head, a shaft SUPPOIiJiIf the same, bearings for the shaft, se 1ar bla es longitudinally extending 0n the purpose specified. cutter head adapted to co-act with the shear Moncton, 13th June, 1906.

blade on the oscillating plate, a crank sei JUHN H. NUTE. cured. t0 the oscillating plate, an eccentric se- In the presence of cured t0 the cutter head shaft, a stri encir- DAVID I. WELOH,

cling the eccentric, a rod connecting t e strip EUNIOE L. WELCH.

with the crank on the plate as and for the 

